The Nation: Voices in Passing

Throughout the National Women's Conference, Houston hummed with
talkpithy and pompous, funny and infuriating, occasionally memorable.
Samples:

> Margaret ("Midge") Costanza, public liaison aide to Jimmy Carter: "I
felt more important being a woman than being an assistant to the
President."

> Liz. Carpenter, former press secretary to Lady Bird
Johnson, at a fund raiser for the Equal Rights Amendment, still three
votes shy of passage: "If I die, don't send flowers. Just send three
more states."